Section 142 · Removal to hospital of patients suffering from infectious diseases

2[(1) In any municipality to which this section may at any time be extended by the State Government, when any person suffering from any infectious disease is found to be- (a) Without proper lodging or accommodation, (b) living in a sarai 3[hotel, boarding house] or other public hostel, or 4[(c) living in a room or house which he neither owns nor pays rent for, nor occupies as the guest or relative of any person who owns or pays rent for it, or] (d) lodged in premises occupied by members of two or more families and any of such occupiers objects to his continuing to lodge in such premises, the committee, by any person authorized by it in this behalf, may, on the advice of any medical officer of rank not inferior to that of an assistant surgeon, remove the patient to any hospital or place at which persons suffering from such disease are received for medical treatment, and may do anything necessary for such removal. 5[(2) The committee shall, if required by the State Government erect an infectious diseases hospital of such type and dimensions as the State Government shall deem expedient. [143. Disinfection of buildings and articles. - If the committee is of opinion that the cleansing or disinfecting of a building or any part thereof, or of any article therein, which is likely to retain infection, will tend to prevent or check the spread of any disease, it may, by notice, require the owner or occupier to cleanse or disinfect the same, 1. Substituted by Punjab Act 3 of 1933, Section 46 2. Renumbered as sub-section (1) of Section 142 by Punjab Act 3 of 1933, Section 47(1) 3. Inserted by Punjab Act 3 of 1933, Section (1)(i) 4. Substituted by Punjab Act 3 of 1933, Section (1)(ii) 5. Added by Punjab Act 3 of 1933, Section 47(2) 6. Substituted by Punjab Act 3 of 1933, Section 48 76 The Punjab Municipal Act, 1911, Section 144 or to destroy such article, in the manner and within the time prescribed in such notice].